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The Jefferson girls’ golf team came away from Monday’s region tournament as the 8-AA champs. The Lady Dragons shot a 182 to win their fifth region title at Chattahoochee Golf Course in Gainesville. Jennifer Brueshaber led the way for Jefferson by shooting an 86 while Hannah Chapman shot a 95. The state tournament is scheduled for May 4 in ...
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It was another solid week for the Jefferson Dragons track team. Jefferson started out last week by hosting Banks County and Riverside on Wednesday. The boys came out on top, earning 78.5 points to Riverside’s 47 and Banks County’s 44.5. Tyler Porter won in the pole vault. J.J. Damons won in the high jump, won in the 200-meter dash and ...
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The Jackson County Panthers track teams picked up a pair of second place finishes last week, as they played host to East Jackson and Franklin County on Thursday. The boys picked up 55 points in the meet, second to East Jackson with 67. Franklin scored 39 to finish third. Charles Smothers picked up wins in the 100-meters and 200-meters, and ...
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Both the boys and girls tennis teams at Jefferson High School won the first round of state playoffs this week. The girls won its first round of state play Wednesday, slamming Rockmart 5-0 at Jefferson. The JHS boys topped Model Thursday afternoon 5-0 for its first round of state playoffs. Both teams earlier won their respective Region 8-AA ...

It was a tale of two halves on Senior Night. Fortunately for Madison County (7-9), the Raiders reserved their most explosive half of the season for last. Madison County rallied from a 3-0 deficit with seven second-half goals to drill Cedar Shoals 7-3 last Wednesday. “I was proud of the team’s heart to come back from such a big deficit in ...
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The Banks County golfers traveled to the Chattahoochee Golf Club in Gainesville Monday to compete in the 8-AA region tournament to end the season. North Oconee took first place in the boy’s tournament and Rabun defeated Union for second. Jefferson took the top spot in the girls’ round with Rabun taking second. For the Banks’ boys, Riley ...
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The Commerce Tigers are gearing up for this weekend’s region track meet in Watkinsville. Athens Academy is hosting the Region 8-A meet that begins Saturday. Last Saturday the Tigers were at the third annual Gary Matthews Invitational at Oglethorpe. Commerce took third place with 72 points behind first place Oglethorpe (120) and second place ...
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With the boys’ region 8-A track meet only days away, the Banks County Leopards are pumping themselves up for the competition. Jefferson will host the region meet starting Saturday, April 25, at 10 a.m. The finals will be Monday starting at 5 p.m. Last Wednesday, Banks competed in a tri-meet with Jefferson and Riverside. The Leopards took ...
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With the boys’ region meet looming on the horizon this week and the girls’ region set for the following week, the East Jackson Eagles track and field teams continue to prepare for what they hope will be a good showing. East Jackson’s boys took top honors over Jackson County and Franklin County in a meet at Jackson County on Thursday. The ...
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The Jefferson tennis teams can add the words “region champs” to their name after both the boys and girls teams swept North Oconee last week to take the 8-AA title. The region tournament started for the boys with the semi-final round against Fannin County, which they won 3-0. Zach Bost won at number one singles 6-3, 6-0. Blair Buffington won ...
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